This report is aimed at planners and policymakers and its purpose was to assess the consequences of actual demand exceeding design standards. A further objective was to compare the policy options of increasing capacity with that of reducing water use.
| Title | A.I.D.'s rural water program in Latin America : what to do about high demand |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 1992 |
| Authors | Lauria, DT, Cizerle, KD |
| Secondary Title | Wash field report |
| Volume | no. 79 |
| Pagination | viii, 42 p.: 1 fig., 11 tab. |
| Date Published | 1992-01-01 |
| Publisher | Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH) |
| Place Published | Arlington, VA, USA |
| Keywords | cab92/6, design criteria, ecuador, guatemala, honduras, planning, programmes, rural supply systems, standards, water demand, water use |
| Abstract | This report is aimed at planners and policymakers and its purpose was to assess the consequences of actual demand exceeding design standards. A further objective was to compare the policy options of increasing capacity with that of reducing water use. It was recommended that rationing rather than increasing design flows and expanding capacities would be the best policy option. In Autumn 1989, meters were installed in 16 rural communities in Ecuador, Guatemala, and Honduras with populations of 100 to 1,200 each. During a period of 2 months in each community, meter readers collected data on actual consumption for 30 days. The authors made determinations of parameters such as average per capita demand, maximum daily demand and required storage volumes to meet actual demands. Calculations were also made for predicting the key design parameters for towns of any size in any of the three countries. The results are to be found in the companion WASH technical report no. 78 "Deriving design standards for rural water systems : case studies using water demand data fro Ecuador, Guatemala, and Honduras". |
| Notes | 16 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 202.5, 827 |
